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The new DJI Mini 3 drone sacrifices obstacle avoidance for a $260 price drop vs the Mini 3 Pro

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DJI has announced the new DJI Mini 3 drone. You might be feeling a little deja vu, like DJI already announced this, but no. This is a cut-down version of the DJI Mini 3 Pro, released back in May 2022. What makes the new DJI Mini 3 non-Pro different? Well, essentially, it’s the lack of obstacle avoidance.

It might seem silly to remove the feature that beginners arguably need the most in a drone specifically targeted towards beginners. But this loss of obstacle avoidance does come with a very significant drop in cost, too, with the basic RC-N1 controller package starting at $559 instead of the $759 for the same package with the Mini 3 Pro.

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DJI officially unveils the DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone with a single 20MP 4/3″ camera

DJI has now officially announced the new DJI Mavic 3 Classic. It’s the latest drone in the Mavic 3 line, falling at the lower end of the price range, adding to the standard Mavic 3 and the Mavic 3 Cine. The new Mavic 3 Classic is largely the same as its more expensive siblings, but with one key difference. It still features a Hasselblad-designed 20-megapixel 4/3″ camera with a 24mm equivalent focal length. But that’s the only camera it contains.

It offers the same 46-minutes of flight time, the same 5.1K video at up to 50fps and 4K at up to 120fps, with 20-megapixel stills in DNG RAW or jpg. It has the same 100-6400 ISO range for both photo and video with shutter speeds from a quick 1/8,000th of a second up to a long 8 seconds. It also features 8GB of internal memory. It would be pretty silly to expect the 1TB internal storage of the Mavic 3 Cine, though.

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